University of Houston Law’s Center for Children, Law & Policy hosts discussion on youth detention advocacy
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — The University of Houston Law Center’s Center for Children Law & Policy will lead a discussion that will advise juvenile advocates on methods to adjust their practice for their clients amid the spread of the coronavirus.
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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — Experts in energy law and climate from the U.S., Mexico, the U.K. and France will meet digitally for the 1st Annual Conference on Global Energy Transition Law and Policy on April 17. The event is co-presented by the University of Houston Law Center’s Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Center and…
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MAINE PUBLIC — Maine Chief Justice Leigh Saufley will step down from the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and take over as dean of the University of Maine School of Law School later this month. The appointment is drawing praise from members of Maine’s legal community.
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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA LAWS SCHOOL — Professor Jill Hasday’s book, Intimate Lies and the Law, has won the 2020 Scribes Book Award “for the best work of legal scholarship published during the previous year.” The first book to uncover the hidden body of law governing deception in dating, sex, marriage, and family life.
Read More about University of Minnesota Law professor Jill Hasday receives 2020 Scribes Book AwardNortheastern Law student Cassandra Dechaine assists in collection and prevention of COVID-19 outbreak in Massachusetts
NEWS@NORTHEASTERN — Dechaine and Pankowska are among a growing number of Northeastern students who have joined a coalition of public health students and professionals to help dozens of health departments across Massachusetts meet their needs as they respond to the COVID-19 crisis.
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UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON LAW CENTER — Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, a professor at Penn State Law School, presented her work-in-progress remotely via Zoom, “Darkside Discretion,” as part of UHLC’s spring 2020 external workshop series. Wadhia’s draft addressed the exercise of discretion in the immigration context to rule against noncitizens even when they are legally entitled to relief.
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QUINNIPIAC — Quinnipiac University School of Law students Brandy Parry, JD ’20 and Megan Spicer, JD ’20 won the 2019-20 American Bar Association law student division Client Counseling Competition…originally were scheduled to take place at Quinnipiac, but the university’s Society for Dispute Resolution team completely redesigned the competition so that it would be held virtually…
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SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — On March 3, 2020 the Superior Court of California of Sacramento County overturned the murder conviction of Jeremy Puckett, who has spent the last 19 years wrongfully incarcerated for murder and today the Sacramento District Attorney’s office dropped all charges and Mr. Puckett walked free.
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SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — On February 26, 2020, Professor Donald Polden, a national expert on leadership education and training for lawyers and law students, lectured on lawyer-leadership to more than one hundred U.S. Army lawyers at the Judge Advocate General (JAG) School of the U.S. Army in Charlottesville Virginia.
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SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW — The American Constitution Society (ACS) announced on March 31 that Santa Clara Law student Dustin Weber was selected as an American Constitution Society (ACS) Next Generation Leader. Each year, ACS selects a small group of students from their nearly 200 chapters to be part of its Next Generation…
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